This seems to be pretty cool, but as you’ll see in the ‘read more’ section, it’s much more than just ‘cool’:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2pOpcR7uf5U%3Fversion%3D3%26hl%3Den_US%22%3E%3C
And here is how it works:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lmKYVUemS_M%3Fversion%3D3%26hl%3Den_US%22%3E%3C
It’s build by Stockholm-based 13thlab.com and it’s an app available on iOS.
Using advanced computer vision, Minecraft Reality maps and tracks the world around you using the camera, and allows you to place Minecraft worlds in reality, and even save them in a specific location for others to look at.
Minecraft Reality is built on our PointCloud SDK. For more information, and examples of what people are placing, visit http://minecraftreality.com.
Just like the Google ARG Ingress, this is yet another example of the crumbling walls between the digital world and the world formerly known as the real world.
The guys of 13thLab claim: “We think the camera will replace the GPS as the most important sensor to interpret and make sense of the world around you.”
Hat tip for Bruce Sterling on Beyond the Beyond for posting about this.
Read also:
– If the world were your platform, what apps would you build, by Janko Roettgers at GigaOM. He asks the fascinating question: “If your apps aren’t just running on a phone or a tablet anymore, but essentially on top of the real world — what kind of apps do you build?”
– The World Is Not Enough: Google and the Future of Augmented Reality by Alexis C. Madrigal at theAtlantic.
-Minecraft creations meet the real world through augmented reality iOS app by David Meyer on GigaOM.
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